Scott Steinmaus, Ph.D.

Dr. Steinmaus received a BS in Plant Science/Plant Pathology and a PhD in Plant Biology from the University of California at Davis. He worked as a staff research associate in the Weed Science program while a graduate student at UCD. He was a National Research Initiative USDA postdoc fellow plant physiologist at University of California Riverside in the Botany and Plant Science Department. 

He joined the Horticulture and Crop Science Department (HCS) at Cal Poly in 1999 and moved into the Biological Sciences Department in 2005 before returning in 2014 to HCS as department head. His area of teaching and research is weed science as it pertains to weeds in agriculture and invasive plants in wild lands.